Pierre Poilievre went toe-to-toe with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the first time in his new role as leader of the Conservative Party during a question period Thursday rife with jabs about cryptocurrency, jet fuel, the carbon price and “tax increases.”
Pierre Poilievre homed in on inflation, housing and tax increases during his first question period as leader of the official Opposition. He also fielded several retorts about his past comment that Canadians can “opt-out of inflation” with cryptocurrency.
The federal environment minister on Thursday, September 1, 2022, rejected a request from the premiers of Atlantic Canada for an extension to the deadline to submit their plans to tackle carbon emissions.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused some politicians on Thursday, September 1, 2022, of being dishonest about the effects of the federal government’s carbon tax.
Longtime Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest, Quebec's former premier, took turns attacking one another's political records on Thursday, May 5, 2022, in the first unofficial debate in the Tory leadership race.
Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest is promising to repeal the Liberal government's consumer carbon price and eliminate the federal portion of the HST on low-carbon purchases.
Ken Boessenkool, executive director of the recently launched Conservatives for Clean Growth, said Friday it doesn't view a consumer carbon price as the make-or-break feature of a good plan to tackle climate change.
Canada must do its part to bring down planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, but the country also needs to prepare for harsher consequences from climate change, the federal environment minister said Monday in the wake of a new United Nations report.
After briefly trying to appeal to climate-concerned voters, the Conservative Party of Canada is ditching its carbon pricing plan, a move Canada’s environment minister says “proves they have no credibility in the fight against climate change.”
Erin O’Toole’s fall from grace within the Conservative Party of Canada was no surprise, but the speed and brutality of his ousting jarred even seasoned political scientists.